The upgrade of Ingevity’s facility in DeRidder, Louisiana, USA is expected to increase the company’s global polyol production capacity by 40 %. Also, the move is being undertaken in the backdrop of the rising global demand for the firm’s Capa suite of caprolactone technologies.

Via the ‘MOL Group 2030+’, the company has updated its strategy for 2030 which now includes a new sustainability strategy aiming to complement the firm’s long-term vision and ambitions beyond 2030.

For years, the industry has been working on recycling CO2 as a raw material. Is there a breakthrough now? In its new technology and trend report ‘Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers - Technologies, Polymers, Developers and Producers’, the Nova Institute talks about an installed production capacity of 850 kt/a. The authors examine which technologies are available and who the main players are.

Bronkhorst has introduced Powerlink as its tenth on-board fieldbus interface option. The company offers digital flow and pressure meters and controllers in both IP40 and IP65 versions.

The combination of propane dehydrogenation technology with CO2 utilization technology has the potential to increase economic activity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Sumitomo Chemical has plans to explore this combination at its petrochemical complex in Singapore.

The hydrogen pilot project is being carried out in a commercial scale cogeneration plant for the first time in Belgium. The move is expected to gradually replace natural gas by hydrogen for generating electricity and heat.

The Chinese company Yangtze River Pharmaceutical (Group) Co. became one of the 12 organizations to win the EFQM Global Award this year. It is also the first pharmaceutical company in the world to receive the award after the implementation of the new EFQM model in 2019.

Nova has completely revised and introduced an extended third version of its nova’s technology and trend report ‘Carbon Dioxide (CO2) as Chemical Feedstock for Polymers – Technologies, Polymers, Developers and Producers’. The report states that CO2 is used as chemical feedstock for polymers and nearly 1 million tons production capacity has already been installed.

The large-scale manufacturing facility is expected to have an electrolyzer production capacity of 500 MW per year which can be expandable to 5 GW. Work on the unit will begin in 2022 and will be operational by 2023.

Speciality chemical company Clariant has signed a license agreement with Harbin Hulan Sino-Dan Jianye Bio-Energy, a Chinese green energy company for its sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology.